Steam itself should run without a problem. (Steam overlay seems to segfault after a couple of seconds though, might/might not be related).

The problem is, when running a game (for example World of Goo Demo), Steam passes LD_LIBRARY_PATH which does not include our libraries.

So it seems us Debian users/Valve (if they will want to support Debian in the future) have the following options:* Wait for Debian to upgrade libc6 to >= 2.15* Recompile Steam for libc6 = 2.13* Modify the game executable to shell scripts which set the appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run the real game executable

I got the client to run by adding quantal to my sources list and replacing some debian packages with the ubuntu variants (notably I run a pretty minimal Debian install, those of you running full gnome/kde are likely wind up in dependency hell if you attempt this). Can't comment on how well it works after launching the client, since I'm not in the beta (Hey Valve, did you know I was the one who figured out the Botanicula on Linux workaround? You should totally invite me!)

Steam itself should run without a problem. (Steam overlay seems to segfault after a couple of seconds though, might/might not be related).

The problem is, when running a game (for example World of Goo Demo), Steam passes LD_LIBRARY_PATH which does not include our libraries.

So it seems us Debian users/Valve (if they will want to support Debian in the future) have the following options:* Wait for Debian to upgrade libc6 to >= 2.15* Recompile Steam for libc6 = 2.13* Modify the game executable to shell scripts which set the appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run the real game executable

steam:i386 : Depends: multiarch-support:i386 (>= 2.15-0ubuntu10.2) Depends: libjpeg-turbo8:i386 but it is not installable Depends: libcurl3-gnutls:i386 (>= 7.16.2-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpixman-1-0:i386 (>= 0.24.4-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libtheora0:i386 (>= 1.0~beta1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.15) but 2.13-36 is to be installed Depends: libcairo2:i386 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.24.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpango1.0-0:i386 (>= 1.22.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpulse0:i386 (>= 1:0.99.1) but 2.0-6 is to be installed

You can't install steam.deb on Debian. You have to extract it to some temporary dir and copy files from /usr/ to your filesystem. Dirty hack, but easily cleanable. Also try to find and install from normal Debian repository packages with name very similiar to those mentioned above.

thank you cyb.org for setting up this script. sadly it does not work for me. I got steam installed and started it after which it performed a update. but while installing or after it crashed and I can not start it. It always shows me an error code